Renault has put Pastor Maldonado’s Malaysian Grand Prix retirement down to piston failure. For the second race in a row, the Venezuelan retired while running in the... read more »

Renault Sport have identified a faulty piston as the cause for Pastor Maldonado's engine failure in Malaysia a fortnight ago. The Williams driver was running tenth read more »

Renault reveals the cause of Pastor Maldonado's engine failure in the Malaysian Grand Prix read more »

Renault has indentified Pastor Maldonado's engine problem in Malaysia as a piston failure and is working to prevent the issue occurring again read more »

Heading to China, Lewis Hamilton is already the only driver who could finish on the podium of every race this season. The 2008 Champion, despite being disappointed with his... read more »

Fernando Alonso suffered a KERS failure in the final part of qualifying for the Malaysian Grand Prix, but the Ferrari driver does not believe it cost him any places on the grid read more »

Despite rounding out the Sepang grid with 23rd and 24th places, HRT is pleased to have qualified for the first time this year. Pedro de la Rosa leads the way and this follows a... read more »

Kimi Raikkonen has blamed a mistake and a communication issue for his failure to progress beyond the opening qualifying session today in Australia. read more »

Red Bull's qualifying pace today was far from what it was last year at Melbourne, with Mark Webber now setting the 5th fastest time, albeit partly due to a KERS... read more »

Michael Schumacher says the margin between success and failure will be narrower this year as he prepares for a close battle with Mercedes' rivals this season read more »

After three relatively trouble-free weeks of testing, Red Bull Racing faced a broken front wing and later on a gearbox failure on its final day of testing in Barcelona, which... read more »

Toro Rosso's chief engineer Laurent Mekies is expecting the margin between success and failure to be very slim in the midfield this year read more »

Kimi Raikkonen revealed that a problem with the power steering prevented him from completing more than 17 laps during the morning session of the third day of testing in Barcelona read more »

HRT will not be ready in time to test this week, the team has confirmed. Having been delayed by the failure of two crash tests, the Spanish outfit had hoped to run its new F112... read more »

Toro Rosso completed less laps than planned today, because an engine change was required after a failure towards the end of the morning session at 12.40. The engine had nearly... read more »

BARCELONA TEST – DAY 2 Circuit: Catalunya, 4.655 kms Driver: Jean-Eric Vergne Car: STR7 – 03 Laps: 45 Best time: 1:23.126 Less laps than planned today, because an... read more »

HRT team principal Luis Perez-Sala says his outfit has taken no satisfaction from seeing rivals Marussia fail its final crash test. read more »

Marussia have failed the one remaining crash test for its car recently, resulting in the unability to run its new car at the next and final pre-season F1 test, starting on... read more »

Marussia Racing will not be present with its new car at the final F1 group test of the 2012 pre-season after failing the complete mandatory crash testing. read more »

Sebastian Vettel: Triple world champion. In 9 months time, it seems likely, doesn’t it? A year ago in the season preview for 2011, I wrote how Sebastian Vettel was... read more »

Mark Webber says he is not unduly concerned by the reliability problems he suffered at Barcelona on Thursday, after a gearbox failure cut short a race distance attempt in the... read more »

Lotus looks set to bounce back following the suspension failure which led to the team withdrawing from this week's Barcelona test. read more »

A rear track rod failure limited Heikki Kovalainen to just 31 laps on the first day of testing at Barcelona, Caterham has confirmed read more »

HRT has confirmed to GPUpdate.net that it will not be taking its 2011 car to either of the upcoming Formula 1 test sessions in Barcelona. The Spanish squad ran last... read more »

In an interview with David Frost, Bernie Ecclestone talked of his fears for F1 in the USA, his disappointment at its failure in Turkey and the problems of an expanding calendar. read more »